by XTIVIA | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
The liferay-plugin-package.properties file is used to list dependencies from the portal’s jars. At deployment time, Liferay will copy the listed jars from the portal’s WEB-INF/lib directory to the artifact’s WEB-INF/lib directory. Defining...
by Asier Del Pozo | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Once upon a time… Sometimes a new project becomes a challenge. That’s the interesting part of software development; otherwise, this job would not be as special as it is! And the reason could not only be the technology you have to use, or the specific...
by Asier Del Pozo | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
For those of you that do not know what Okta is, an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station. Isn’t that cool? I didn’t know that there was a unit of measurement for that!...
by XTIVIA | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog, Portals
The basic process of Liferay 6.2 Theme development involves creating a new theme, make changes to it, and deploy. It’s really a simple process; however. the only drawback to this process is that every time you make any changes to a theme, you will need to deploy it to...
by Derek Nerenberg | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Databases, Portals
This post shows you how to query Liferay’s database and see which Documents and Media files are marked ‘searchable’. For these examples, I was using SQL Server and did not validate the queries work on other databases. They are...
by XTIVIA | May 29, 2015 | Applications, Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
AngularJS is a great framework for Single Page Applications (SPAs) – it’s easy to learn and use. There’s no reason not to (and actually every reason to) create your Liferay portlets as AngularJS SPAs. Our organization considers...
by XTIVIA | May 12, 2015 | Applications, Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
This blog post explains using HTTP to remotely get and add documents to Liferay’s Document and Media Library. Since documents may require authentication for access, this post explains how to use basic authentication to achieve that. It will also cover...
by Cameron McBride | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog, Portals
Introduction The Unused Web Content portlet is a control panel portlet. This portlet allows site administrators to see web content that is not used in any web content display portlet. The site administrator can take action on each piece of web content by either...
by Susobhan Mishra | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Introduction The Documents and Media File System Checker portlet was developed by XTIVIA, the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Liferay North America Partner of the Year. As we work with Liferay customers, we often run into situations where the client has a Liferay environment...
by Matt Wolinski | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Portals
Liferay themes are an easy way to transform the look and feel of your portal. Theme development is not difficult and can be done with Velocity or FreeMarker templates. You can also create a JSP-based theme but that’s less common. We can talk for quite a while...
